Thursday, October 30, 2014

Just one

Fox News: "Holder says ‘subpoena’ to Fox News reporter is his one regret."  My bad, almost destroying your career, infringing on your First Amendment rights, and stuff.

Extra - Business as usual at the DOJ: "FBI Announces Investigation of GOP Senate Candidate Days Before Election."

6 comments:

Nigel Tufnel said...

With regard to the timing of DOJ investigation on the GOP candidate: I trust you were as outraged when the same nonsense went on during the Bush administration.

What is your proposal to decouple political influences on DOJ actions regardless of who is in the White House?

Eric said...

Examples?

As for Holder, I'm with Charles Krauthammer that the Democrats will regret the precedents set by this DOJ, most notably the wholesale refusal to enforce laws. If a Republican President takes control and simply refuses to enforce any provisions of Obamacare, how will the Left respond, having set the new standard?

Yoo Who said...

Examples?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/media-july-dec01-ap_08-28/

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002/06/05/hacker-subpoena.htm

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washdc/july01/2001-07-27-ashcroft-journalists-usat.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/washington/01chronicle.html?_r=0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Free_Press_v._Ashcroft

http://www.mediainstitute.org/ONLINE/FAM2003/1-c.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/us/21fbi.html



As for Holder, I'm with Charles Krauthammer that the Democrats will regret the precedents set by this DOJ, most notably the wholesale refusal to enforce laws. ...how will the Left respond, having set the new standard?

Oh, that dirty Left, with their precedents and their new standards. Anyway, Geneva Convention, Geneva Suggestion... what's the diff?

Eric said...

Using the IRS against political opponents was the second article of impeachment against Nixon. In this DOJ: "gee, what's the big deal?"

Stuff like that makes me fast and furious.

DOJ dodge said...

In what has an air of eerie déjà vu, the Debbie-bot's examples had nothing to do with the original claim: With regard to the timing of DOJ investigation on the GOP candidate: I trust you were as outraged when the same nonsense went on during the Bush administration.

Examples?...i.e., show an example of the Bush DOJ beginning an investigation of a Democrat candidate right before an election.

Nigel Tufnel said...

Nigel wearily shakes his aged head. The question is about politicization of the DOJ. The 'nonsense' Nigel had in mind includes the wholesale firing of US Attorneys General, Pete Domenici's shenanigans, Brad Schlozman, etc. The point is there is a long and bipartisan history of the DOJ's being influenced by political considerations.

Nigel was asking about what could be done to prevent this politicization.

Instead the thread is inevitably warped into the usual 'gotcha!' arguments over minutiae to 'prove' that one side is supported by smarter people and is composed of lily white avatars of civil service, while the other side is worse than you know who.

Reading Krauthammer will make you feel better about what you want to believe, but it won't really help you understand what's going on.